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...first 20 years of his career, Shahn's hates were what his public loved best-his scarifying gouaches of the 1921 Sacco-Vanzetti trial, his browbeaten bread-liners of the Depression, his concentration-camp victims of World War II. Since the mid-1950s, however, his work has mellowed. Nowadays, Shahn's gift is spurred as often by fondness as it is by rancor...
Died. John F. Finerty, 82, acerbic trial lawyer who defended many unpopular causes, in the 1920s fought for the release of funds donated by Americans to aid Eamon de Valera's struggle for Irish independence, in 1927 argued the last writ of habeas corpus for Sacco and Vanzetti the night of their execution, and in 1953 joined in a last-ditch attempt to save convicted Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg from the electric chair; of bronchial pneumonia; in Oceanside...
...create a science from scratch. Be tween 1919 and 1923 he acquired data on almost every rifle, shotgun and side arm of recent manufacture, and simultaneously developed microscopic devices for examining gun barrels and comparing projectiles. Waite's methods were vindicated at the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, where the new instruments demonstrated irrefutably that a bullet from the gun Nicola Sacco was carrying had killed the payroll guard, ∙ FORENSIC MEDICINE, a science that had languished since the Renaissance, came on with a rush in the 19th century when Germany's Rudolf Virchow and his followers began to study...
...liberals. He toiled for the N.A.A.C.P., helped found the American Civil Liberties Union. In the fledgling New Republic, he flayed the conservative Supreme Court for blocking urgently needed social and economic legislation. In 1927, he horrified proper Bostonians by attacking the murder case against Anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti as "a farrago of misquotations, misrepresentations, suppressions and mutilations." Irate alumni nearly got Frankfurter fired, but Harvard could hardly dump a man whom Justice Louis D. Brandeis called "the most useful lawyer in the United States...
...they rush him off to the sneezer or jail, with never a sob gulped out in his behalf." Yet when two bezarks awaited execution in Massachusetts in 1927, Runyon turned in a story so unsentimental that his editors refused to run it: "They're frying Sacco and Vanzetti in the morning," ran the lead...